The Cedarville Herald, Volume 12, Numbers 1-26

the ba t t l e f ie ld : two SOLOIERSWrOETTYSWIRQr TM fctgnt *«* ■till »na Cwfc, w ■ An! t!>aa»»nd oo theHold ’tffre lying *tltt*nd*Urk- iXtoestretcher men bud oorae along gsthercd nil they could. - Abcndred surgeons worked thatnight Behind the clumpot wood., : . / v 'TheyUnshodthe lanterns in my face../ \ri Andas they hurrted by; The sorgcsntlooked and said “He's dead,” ,■ And I made no reply. The bullet bad gone throughmy brent-* No wondor I wa*still;' t ut once will I bo nearer death Thanwhen upon that hilt. Agrsy-clnd picket came along Uponbis midnight beat; ■ . . . ‘ Be came so near mo that I tried * To njove and to .oh his foot. ... • At once he bent and felt my breast . : Where life still loughtat-bay; Bo onewho loved me could have done More than this man of gray. . . O'er mo, all chilled with blood anddowt His blanlcctsoft he spread; A crimson sheaf of wheat he brought A pillow for my head. ___ Then knelt i esideme for an hour * And bathed my lips and brow; But for the man who was my foe • X’d not te living now. Then as the coming daylight' shown1, Be bent his lips to say, ""Gad spare yon brother, though you wear The blue, and t tho grayt” ' ' The sounds ot wararo silent.now; Wo call no man our foe. . ’ gut soldierhearts can not forget Thoscones of long ago. >' Bohr are the ones who stoodwithus . / • To struggle or to die; Bo ohe cun ofibnor breathe their names OrJove (horn more than I. -5 But frommy lifb I’d give a year > That gray-clad man to see; To clasp in love the foemau's hand . "Who saved my llfo tomb.’ —Minneapolis Tribune. FORT AFRICA. How the Colored Troops Fought. In the Osage Talley. Amardiof forty orfifty miles brought thedetachment to its destination. In­ steadof a nest of less than a hundred bushwhackers, Island Mound, in the OsageValley, was occupied by a camp of Confederate recruits, numbering no less than 900men, under regular Con­ federate officers. General Cockrell,who , washome on a recruiting visit, was in thecamp. Not Until they had gone too farto draw back did the officers o f the coloredvolunteersrealize theirposition. Captain Dick Ward, as senior captain, wasin command. He and Hinton con- . halted, fmd destded that it would never /dhto retreat. The eyes of the whole countrywere on the ex-slaves. Mes­ sengers were sent back to Paoja and fortHcott, 'to explain the sitnation and tosuggest-reinforccments. The colored irpopatook possession o f high ground ; overlooking the valley, threw up light eirthworks, raised the flag, and called theplace fort Africa. The first day there was skirmishihg, and the ex- Alavesgot their noses full of the smoke ■of battleand saw some Caucasian blood flow.' The next day there wah gott»6 Morefighting, and theex-slaVes had the best .of it. The third day, tiring of A fsbikn policy, part o f the command, whkhhadbeen sent Out to hold a bluff, --juried forward into the valley and fraught on a genuine battle. The Con­ federates advanced and fell on the ; littleparty in advance. Then the whole force of ex-slaves was brought forward os aran and the fighting was general. Thecrucialtestof blackcourage came whenAdjutant Hinton got i40 o f these ■tr-dsves into line and prepared for i -•terge down into the valley upon the Confederates. As he ran his eye along the line the Adjutant thought he saw dgn*of warering. “Better be dead freemen than live dxves,” he shouted with a mighty oath. “Comeon.” **VVe’s cornin’,” was the reply in •♦horn, . . Ashe plunged down the hill the Ad- jstsat looked back over his shoulder M*d*4wthe blsck line following with- set s break. The black line and the white column met. It was hand-to- hnd—theMissouristeve-hq^derand the Missouriex-slave, As a hall plowed throughtheAdjutant’s thigh he scarcely I m w H, for his attention was absorbed V s scene he never tdtgot A great •ool-blaek negro had coma fan* to face withaConfederate officer. The exalte* nsat had brought ont -some long-for- fotten strainof barhario battling in tbs tegro. As he moved along, his eye* Mis rolling mad his* teeth gleaming, * * . negro chanted in his deep baas slowlyand solemnly. '“Surrender, yon black scoundrel,” ‘‘W ed the Missourian. “Nev-ah—by-the-goOd-Lord,” sang ex-slave with all the amphasia o f frittering a solemn vow. Audplunging forward be drove the « f Mber-bayoaet through ‘the whit* ten s breast, twisted the bldde, and *tee a horrible Wound, chough to let **t» dozen lives, Still chanting the ex-date looked at "• Woody bayonet, and then turned to M*kanothertletlio. As he did *6 he ■*tertheAdjutant'a eyes upon him, and jh his deep, drawling tones, ex- '*I~got- hh*~Mr.—AdJ—too, X* ex-slaves were armed with the te* Belgian muskets which had been ** the department as a legacy of ’ 1 **?^*'* brilliant bnt not. altogether management, TbeHsdgkm’ —it*had been thrown arid* aa on* w tit j bf white sdlffite*, But thaw geodenough iw «a «h w i* i* drift- with. They had, been issued to these negro companies by some officer who had no idea they would ever get into battle. They failed asfirearms after is few rounds, and than their owpera seijed tkem hy The baVreis and made clubs,of them in thehand-to-hand fight­ ing, When the Uflion officers went over the battle-ground the next day they found the remnants of forty of thesq muskets which had been smashed imtite conBjkstbefor^ Jljey wereflpown As the battle was waning and the Confederates were retreating the Adju­ tant of the ex-slaves saw one of hismen staggering back. The negro had been sho^through ?>oth arins.nearthe elbow. His hands hung limp and useless and the blood was dripping from them, But up under .the. armpits he hugged his broken Belgian musket.. *T didri’t Ipse jny gun; Mr, Adj—ton; I gat'my gum fifth?’ the ex-slave called out proudly.' Not' a murmur escaped him about the shattered arms, hut he had saved his gun and he claimed credit for it—:St; Louis Globe-Democrat. QUEER PENSION CLAIMS. Some Peculiar aii<l I,auglial>le" Keason* ■ Given In. Appllcatlqua. The oddityo f humannaturejbas found an apt illustration in some of the many claims fdr pensions that have been re­ ceived under the new law.' Many men have stretched their imaginations as well as their consciences: in their efforts to be placed on Uncle Sam’s great and rapidly growing pension roll. They al­ lege' eveiy disease and ailment known to the sclenceVof medicine,* and then urge the claims with energetic per­ sistency. Some of. the causes alleged are as odd as they are interesting, An ex-soldier in Ohio wrote: “ I don’t exactly know what disease I am suffering from, hut I do know that I deserve a pension, as I am suffering the pains qf death all over my body,” Under the provisions of the recently passed dependent-pension law, it is only necessary for a claimant to show that he is incapacitated from manual labor, whether the causes are due to army service or not, in order to have his name placed on the rolls. To show his inability to perform manual labor tbe affidavits of neighbors are necessary, reoiting that fact. A veteran in Howard County, Mary- land, sent the testimony of a neighbor, who, no doubt, meant well enough, but' did not know hpw to express himself. The latter swore to the statementthathe had known the claimant for ten years, and that “ he would not work unless he was. compelled to.” The witness, of course, meant to .say that claimant while really unable to work by reason ofh is physical infirmities was frequent­ ly compelled to attempt labor in or­ der to sustain himself. The widow o f a man who .shouldered a musket in the Pennsylvania reserves wanted u pension, and was asked if her husband was ever wounded.” : “Oh, yes,” Blue replied, “he received an axe wound of the right foo t” Being asked to oxplain the circum­ stances' surrounding the .wounding of her better half, she said he cut his foot while splitting wood. It was notdur- ing the War that this occurred, but in 1879, at their bojuc in Pennsylvania. The pension attorney^wanted to know what bearing such an occurrence could possibly havfi upon the pension law, ruid the widow answered, curtly: •/ Well, sir, the axe' he cut. his foot with is the same one he brought homo with him from the war. It was anarmy axe.*’ A father remarkable declaration was made by a Michigan veteran. He stat­ ed under oath that he picked up a shell on the battlefieldof theWilderness, and took It Intohis tent. Whileholding the missile be tween hi* knees, examining it, the shell exploded, “ badly shattering his nervous system,” hut miraculously causing no other injury. An ex-cannoneer of one o f the regu­ lar batteries claims that he stopped a cannonball with his abdomen, and has since been greatly troubled with Stom­ ach disorders. The ball, h* say*, was a spentone, and came bounding along, striking him eqfcartsly on the exteriorof the inner man, and nearly knocking him Jqtd the middle o f the following week.—Washington Post. SCRAPS OP INFORMATION. I l HKKK are 900 children in the Sot- its *Orphan Home at Xenia, 0. JotoExL M a r sh a ll , of Baltimore, wpicnousat the late banqueto f the nr York Confederate Veteran Camp, uUd to baths lastsurvivor o f General e’s old staff. •' IxTiKTAM P ost , N o . 64, Parsons. has a post burial place in the aetery, laid out in circular form, tded, tukl shaded, which cost 96,000, I* proposed to meet a grand menu* a t in this soldiers' cemetery. taKRk is a prospectthat a monument (lbs erected at Gettysburg in mem* ro f General Meade and his corps of nmaoders, Reynold*, Hancock, kies, 8yk*e, fledgwlek, Howard, Slo- a and Plsassnton. Tbs only mount- figure will be that o i Mead*. The ps commander* on foot willbegroup- About the eomSMmdsr. * i u WAt, tun*#, oi SpriagSrid, N, has Ordered a soldiers’ mmutmentte completed by June L 1691- The ttuwebt is to be finished in good le, with emblem* and inscription#, toldter standing At rest $s to crown 1 granite ahAlt. The wholsistooOit Mb It is to bs plsceditt thsesmi* PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL. —An old wooden statue of Georg* Washington, fully ten feat high, has come te light-in New York, It is dis­ covered that it used to stand in Battery park. —Ism*-1. L. Landis, of Lancaster, Pa., an ujw-ntor of some note, has beenhon­ ored with a corresponding honorary membership in the Inventors’ Academy pf Paris. . " —Some meh have done really hard mental work while asleep. Condotcot finished a train of calculations in his sleep which had much puzzled him dur­ ing tho day. —The.cpffin'iu which the late King of Hollandm hurled is twice the size roy quired owing to the undertaker con­ fusing the new Dutch metre and the old in his measurement, which mistake \yasdiscovered too late to be remedied. —Brigham Young did not possess the fabulouB wealth that was credited to him. He left .just 81,200,000 when he died, and this snm was divided accord­ ing to the strictest laws o f equity among. eighteen wives and their children. —A New'York letter: says: “Certain New York firms have been tryinggood-1 looking women as bill collectors., So far the scheme has been unsuccessful Three of the women married inside t week, and four more are engaged, while the balance sympathize with the poor fellows who have nm into debt and have not collected a centk” —“It is calculated,” says one of the New York Telegram’s exchanges, “ that a man walking day arid night could make a journey round the oarth in 428 days.” This is the sort of nformation the people pine for, althoiq h it may h* months before we can find a man capa­ ble of walking continually for 428days and nights. A somnambulist might ^Succeed if he could only he hypnotized into'going in the right direction whiL asleep. —The original “ Annie Laurie” was one of the four daughters of Sir Robert Laurie, first barpnet of Maxwelton, by his second wife, who was a daughter of Riddell, of Minto. The song was writ­ ten by a Mr. Douglas; of Finland, about the end of the seventeenth or the be­ ginning of the eighteenth century; but it is a sad fact that the poetical lover did not obtain the bonnie Annie for his wife, She was married to a Mr. Fur- guson, of CraigdarRook.—N. Y. Ledger. —Frank Moore, compiler of “ The Re­ bellion Record,” and also an enthusi­ astic collector of antiquities and curios­ ities of the revolutionary period, hassc- .cured what he is confident is a genuine portrait of General George Washington, .engaged in smoking a pipe. It is by a Southern artist and was found among the property of an old Virginia family. He will shortly reproduce it for public printing. 'He says it will not detract in the least from the generally prevail­ ing idea of the great personal dignity of Washington. “ A LITTLE NONSENSE." —A stingy man-does the devil’s work for nothing.—Ram’s Horn. —She—“Please hold my wap.” He— “Certainly. Shall I put it around yon first?”—Life. —There are men who claim to haVo religion, who let their wives carry in all the coal.—Ram’s Horn. •—Quizz (fishing for sympathy)—“Do you suffer with neuralgia?” Fizz (em­ phatically)—“ Always, when I have it.” —Lowell Citizen. —Disappointment first comes in life to the baby Who hasahorng|ventohlm for a Christmas present and-then find* he hasn’t wind enough to blow it— Somerville Journal. —Presently, when we think that we have caught cold or the meulee, or something, we shall be exclaiming; “ Dear mei I must have taken a mi­ crobe.”—Washington Post —Customer—“ Tho milkiha little bit blue, don’t y in think?” Milkman—“ It yon had as many one-horse jokes made about-you as city milk has, yon would feel a little blue yourself.”—Indianapo­ lis Journal. .—The Stampo f a Gentleman.—Father —“ There is a gentleman in the parlor for you.” Daughter—“Who is .he?” Father—“ I don’t know,*but he is gen­ tleman, for he offered me an Imported cigar.”—N. Y. Sun. —“Tommy, my dear, what are you. crying for?” said a lady to her little boy, whohad justreturned from church. “Because the clergyman says we most all he born again, and Pm afraid I shall he horn a girl next time.”—Christian Register. —Manager of Crematorium.—“ Mad­ am, we have both the French and Mi­ lanese system, which would you prefer for the late lamented?” Widow—“Oh, the French. My poor husband always hated Italian cooking.”—Pharmaceu­ tical Bra. —Tale o f Two Cities.— ' Allswas latshSe, Hswas ImsatUM, , Hailed from Chicago, *h* earn*fromthe Rub. Hs.temured afleetton, Abegsvahimrejection— Becouldn’t go Asked bssns.sad that was tberub. ■ —New York Herald. —Woman—“ Officer, where is the car thdt goes past the Central Station?” Offioer—’ Ttwill he along In a minute, ma’am, and I’ll dhow It .to yon. |A minifto efagwem] Thete’A yofir erir, lady! R«X| mad yost may eatek tt." Wom4a—“ 0h, l don't want to take the ear till to-morrow, oflloer. t jtst .thought Pd eosss down io*diorA»d see. whatIt Bayrsun1 IN WOMAN’S BEHALF. WOMEN AS DESIGNERS. AnJ#i»;>li>ynivi»fc'Which IsIttnnuiieratlva us Wutl usTlcueont. “ Eight years ago I wished to become Adesigner for carpets, haying made .np my mind to the effect by.seeing.anugly carpet, .and wondering why more beau­ tiful onei, could not he made,” , _ The Bpcuker wasalady whohas takcp up practical dCBigning as a. means of ' BUi>port. .As at present * ’the most val­ uable gift which can be bestowed on worn;,n is something to do which they can d^weil und Worthily and thereby maintain themselves," any.one who has opened an avenue that offers a’ profita­ ble and adaptable employmentforworn* en must hnve something to say that is interesting and probablyhelpful to oth­ ers. By her.own personal researchand labor this woman obtained thepractical knowledge necessary to enable her to compete with men in technical educa­ tion in art and design. She visited a representative factory of nearly every art industry in the United States, study­ ing in each the technicalities of the ma­ chinery and practical requirements of the design of various industries, thus qualifying herself fat the work she had chosen. Manywomen of refined taste andgood general artistic culture waste their energies andhealth in thevainendeavor to make decorations upon silk, satin? Christmas and Easter cards, panels and pluques, reasonably profitable, .who might easily perfect themselves income one of the many forms of industrial de­ sign, and thus secure a steady income. rWill you give me some idea of the opening that seems to you to exist in this direction for employment for .wom­ en?” was a question I put to the wom­ an mentioned. “ It is one of the best openings for woman’s labor in the country. It is remunerative; it is easy work; it is as easy as for a lady to sit down and paint for her own amusement. There is a de­ mand for patterns which can not be filled by the designers already in this yountry. Almost every manufacturer of any consequence sends abroad for hundreds, and some 'for thousands, of dollars’ worth of patterns yearly. These designs are brought from Eng­ land, Scotland, France and all over Eu­ rope. Manufacturers send men over there, pay their expenses and pay for the designs. These designs could he made as well, in our own country and by women.' Designs are needed for other industries—for instance, stained glass, rugs, marbles, tiles, tablecloths, calicoes, towels, repousse work in sil­ ver, gold, brass and copper, designs for furniture, gas fixtures—almostanything you look at.that is ornamental, is made in this country, and them is a demand fo r '’designs.. Some factories require more than others. “As to remuneration, a first-class de­ signer for body Brussels will receive about 64,900 to 85,000 a year. An in­ grain designer receives less, onabout 82,500. A moquetto designer receives a little more than a body Brussels de­ signer. Six thousand dollars is a good salary for any designer for any purpose. These salaries o f course, apply only to the moat skillful workers. In one car­ pet factory in this city, for instance, they have one man designer, and under him anywhere from fourteen to sixteen men and boys. The boys are employed at the rate of- about 88 a week when they begin. A ll. they have fo do is to grind colors. I f they ars at all compe­ tent they get to copying, that is, .with simple pattern*. They are then paid from 87 to 810 a week. Laying on the ground i* the next step; andfinally they work on the higher pattern* if they hare taste. By that time they have pickednpagreat dealfrom seeingothers work, and finally become designers themaelvea That la tbs way men be* eom« designers. "For young women aschool for teach­ ing technical designing has been estab­ lished within the last few years. The course of instruction extends over two years. Geometrical arrangement, the drawing o f flowers and adapting them to simple designs—that is—prints, etc., are included in tho first year's course. The technicalities are simple. The sec­ ond year the technicalitiesof machinery and designing for all frabrics upon which the design is brought to the sur­ face by the Jacquard loom; tablecloths, carpets, silk, or any, fabrics in which design is brought to the surface. In­ struction is given *by lectures; for in­ stance, a lecture may be given on in­ grains. The machinery Is explained m well as the requirements for making Hie design, even to theminutest details. Only one klndof a fabric, or one kind o f industry, is given at a time. “ As to the demand for designers— there are from seventy-five to hue hun­ dred carpet factories in this country. Borne o f these employ only one or two designers and buy manyoutsidedesigns; others employ fifteen to sixteen. Twen­ ty would be A large number ot design­ ers for any ope Carpet firm to employ. When you come to silk, wall paper and other Industries, it Is about the same. Designs are in demand for tidies, piaao and table cover*or similararticlesmade by machinery? for which the usual weekly salaty for designers is twenty- five dollars. Then the furniture trade takes a great many designers. To de­ sign for furniture, however, one must he something o f a jolnOrandunderstand carpentering. You m)|trtaMfc* a beau­ tiful deafen, sag to t ftdreariag «Me, but you must wake a practical working de* sfen as welt, drawn to a seal*. “ lk »ow vnryRtUeAbooiihasAlariea earned by young women aa designer*. A young girl of fourteen,while studying this art, sold .two d£rign», one for 88, the other for 810. She also received the twenty-dollar prize offered , at .the- school. Two other young women, one a designer, the other a colorist, receive salaries o f §10 andS15respectively.”— N. Y, Star. MAKING THE MEN GOOD. * Worn,',1 Wave It In Their Power to firing the Men I'j, to * Higher ptahdaril of , Living; Bless the girls, how I love them! To me they are the hweetest things in the World, with their fresh young cheek* afid bright eyes, laughing and chatting simply because their hearts are so fuU of fun and talk that it justbubblesOver, , They can ' do more with-those merry smiles and winning looks than we old women ebnKean, though blessed with the wisdom,of female Solomons, or tho giiilC of serpents, and it is to them that ■ we look for opposition to the evil in the world, and the encouragement of the good and falling. If only the girls would band together aud frown upon the wrong-doers, and persistently refuse to smile upon their misdeeds, what a reformation all over the country there would be! . , '■ If,the pretty swcctheartswouldrefuse to laugh at the mocking words young men of our day think so clever, whendi­ rected against religion and the good old ways our grandparents delighted in, there would soon be on end of such scoffing. If our youths knew that the bright eyes would look coldly on them when the rutfior gathered ground that they were "gay,” would they not guard their reputation as a jewel o f great price?\ Let the girls regard a drinking man as a pest-infected one, and no more think of receiving suchintotheirhomes, and we will have no marriages in oppo­ sition to parents, no broken-hearted women shielding drunken husbands from the world’s censure, nogoing back to father with sod-cyed little children to care for when shamo is open and it is no longer possible to hope for reforma­ tion. ^ All the girls have to do is to set up a' standard, with a determination to live ' anddie by it, and men will come np to it, never fear. . If you are content with a low type, then shut your eyes and be as compla­ cent as you please; but if you want a good hhsband, and, by and by, good sons, set your face firmly against the weak and vicious. 1 ■ You are afraid you will frighten the men away by such severity and prud­ ishness? No, you will not—at least, it will frighten away only such asyou ore better off Without their admiration and love, and men whose opinion is worth having, and whom you would really care to marry, if you are the wise, wcll- vegulatcd young woman I take yon for, will honor you for your common sense and prudence, and know you for the very wife they waqt.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. WOMAN AND HER WAYS. Or the.fifty-three members of the re­ cently formedWater-ColorClub, in New York, over halt are women- A femixine inspector of primary schools has been appointed in France, And there are more to follow. M bs . C arbv S teele , a colored wom­ an of Georgia, lias founded a colored orphan asylum where destitute children may be clued for and taught trade*. A nother medical school for women has been opened in connection with Queen Margaret College, Glasgow. It is said that the demand for highly com­ petent women is continually increasing, a* India aad the East become more en­ lightened and unprejudiced. T hose who hare studied tho subject assert that it is absolutely impossible for the Paris working girl to live upon her earnings. The terrible condition Of the working women in Paris has at last attracted the attention of the French government, and inquiries are being made with a view of alllevating their sufferings. T he first gymnasium or college, for women in Rome la to be openedApril 1, 1991. This is in accordance with the order of the Cultus Minister BosellL The grade and character of the new in­ stitution is to he that o f the technical schools, and the object is to enable young women to prepare themaelvea to enter the universities. L ast year 8,174 girl apprentice* opened accounts with the Librarian o f the Society o f Mechanics and Trades­ men. In the three yearsof itsexistence the night school connected with the So­ ciety graduated lls young women. These industrious student* are engaged during the day in various pursuits, as saleswomen, dressmakers, milliners, telegraphandmachine)operators, clerks, domestics and factory hands. With the instruction reeeiveduUhavebeenplaced in more desirable/and profitable posi­ tions. ' T he Boston Ilersid say* that a wom­ an reporter is apt to be a peculiar study. When she is sent to report a lecture sheenters the bell Andwalks Up to the reporters’ tableswith Aquiet and modest grace. From the depth* o f a reticule she brings forth a quantity o f nice white paper, at least half a do*en pencils pointed at both ends, and lastly, a bag o f candy. Thiels her equipment for the fray. Her Mifrtretd the other sex probably sits opposite her, writing with a stubby psncil upon the back iff an old envelope, and trying to look mis* erahteatthebagof eandy. When tit* speaker eomes forward ah# join* the audience in giving him aromfugreoep* Mon, stepping a* vfeownafe t* ode.